On Monday 03 Dec 2012 10:53:16 Markos Chandras wrote: > Hi, > > I have a host (centos6) running Gentoo as a guest on Virtualbox-4.2.4. > However, I am not able to get audio working on the Gentoo guest. > > The configuration is the following: > > == Host settings for Guest VM == > Alsa Audio Driver > Intel HD Audio > > == Gentoo VM == > Linux-3.6.8 > lsmod|grep snd > snd_hda_codec_idt 44870 1 > snd_hda_intel 20177 3 > snd_hda_codec 59120 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel > snd_pcm 59535 3 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel > snd_page_alloc 5809 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel > > The alsamixer seems to recognize the virtual audio card correctly. > However I am not able to get any audio output on smplayer,mplayer or > even chromium. > > Any ideas? I also have a Windows Guest (Host settings Pulseaudio/Intel > HD Audio) and the sound works there without problems.
If you're running the binary VBox package I seem to recall that sound was broken a couple of years ago. Yep, here it is: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310793 Crikey! 85 comments and still going. I hope they add it to the main tree soon. -- Regards, Mick
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